When we can we ask people in the know for their tips on what to buy or try in the world of wine and spirits. It also makes a change from listening to Henry drone on. Here are all those videos – the most recent of which come from our trip to the Big Fortified [...]
Tags: Henry Butler, Red wine, Restaurant, White wine, Wine tasting, Winebox tv
WOW. The much anticipated Halloween Special II (as it is our second one) with famous crime fiction novelist Peter James as our special guest. Expand the player, lean back and enjoy, but don’t get too cozy; you might put that Gewurztraminer down the wrong pipe! OOOOOOAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
Tags: Halloween, Henry Butler, Novelist, Peter James, Red wine, White wine, Wine, Wine tasting
Its summer time. The kids have broken up. Its pissing with rain. Time to book a cheap flight somewhere and chances are Stelios will be part of your search. The flight is £30 but Cameraman once famously worked up a £78 bill on a delayed flight back from Mykonos on Pringles, London Pride and Bacon [...]
Tags: Brighton Wines, Cava, Easyjet wine, El Mago, Epicure Wines, Franck Massard, Gerard Basset, Henry Butler, Hotel du Vin, Spain Reds, Sparkling Wines, summer wines, White wine, Wine label design, Wine Marketing, wine on aircraft, Wine Tourism, Winebox tv, Wines for diabetics
Shopkeeper: Can I help you sir, are you buying or just curious? Man: I suppose I’m buy-curious. And so begins our recommendations for wines to drink over the course of the Gay Pride festival. The innuendo comes thick and heavy, not least from your own suggestions for drinks for famous gay celebrities. The wines include [...]
Tags: Brighton Pride 2011, California wine, Easyjet wine, fruit wine, Henry Butler, Home Brew wine, Rose Wine, summer wine, summer wines, Sussex Wine, What to drink at a festival, White wine, Wine making, wine on aircraft, Winebox tv, Wines for Pride
How often do you pick up a wine based on it having a nice label? How often do you put a good wine back because you don’t like its label? Don’t lie. We’re all a bit shallow and marketeers know it. The fact is some decent English wine has come under fire because the labels [...]
Tags: information on wine labels, Red wine, White wine, Wine label design, Wine labels
Santa Henry wants you for his army of elves! And what wine should you drink with your turkey, Christmas day? There are different schools of thought, here, red or white, but the main piece of advice is to go for something that won’t be overpowered by whatever else you have loaded onto your plate, as [...]
Tags: Beaujolais, christmas day wine, Garganega, Henry Butler, Red wine, Soave, turkey, White wine
You must decant. It doesn’t mean your a snob or a wanker, you don’t have to put your wine into some cut-glass vase your grandad stole from a cruise ship – it is simply the very important process of slugging your wine into another vessel to get some air to it and start bringing it [...]
Tags: Decanting wine, Henry Butler, Improving a cheap wine, Red wine, Waking up a wine, White wine
I oversee a fund-raising dinner at the New Steine hotel in Kemp Town Brighton every couple of months where chef dreams up some pretty impressive grub and I match the wines and give a little chat about each. This week we’ll stick up the three films from the last evening, starting with the starter. A [...]
Tags: Bourdeaux wines, Brighton and Hove, Chateau Asard, Henry Butler, New Steine Hotel, White wine
I was on the organising committee of the Glynde Food and Drink Festival behind the South Downs next to Glyndebourne (where they belt out the opera). It’s a lovely part of the world and within a sprint of The Ram in Firle and the Jolly Sportsman in East Chiltington – both highly recommended. I’ve picked [...]
Tags: Fiano, Food and drink festival, Glynde, Henry Butler, Italian wine award, Plumpton, White wine
